8:00 p.m. — A Kirsten Avenue woman who gave her key to a construction worker, reports jewelry missing and wonders if there’s a connection.

8:13 p.m. — Near McDonald’s on North Main, kids throw fireworks at runners and bicyclists.

10:37 p.m. — A Portland Street woman blames a relative for the disappearance of $100.

10:45 p.m. — A man in his pajamas, and lacking any shoes, reports from down on Charles Street that he’s got the locked-out blues, police arriving on the scene declare that he’s half-crocked, for while he thought he was shut out, the door was aye unlocked.

1:46 a.m. — On South Main Street, a bespectacled man with no shirt (here we go) jumps in and out of traffic and hollers and screams that he wants to fight people. He is taken into protective custody for alcoholism.

1:58 a.m. — A Salmon Falls Road man reports that someone has rung his bell and is on the breezeway steps with a flashlight. The caller advises that he is armed inside his house.

6:44 a.m. — A vehicle is damaged on Winter Street.

7:59 a.m. — Two vehicles have been egged on Portland Street.

8:18 a.m. — A spare tire has been stolen from a vehicle at the Lilac Mall overnight.

8:41 a.m. — An Upham Street girlfriend has been punched in the face.

9:17 a.m. — The Knights of Columbus hall has been burgled and a cash drawer stolen.

9:59 a.m. — An Academy Street man names a suspect who has just stolen $100 from him.